Indoor Positioning Using Nothing But LED Lighting May 22, 2015 by Super User This is cool. The lighting division of the tech multinational Philips is testing new technology that enables highly accurate, anonymous indoor location and navigation using nothing but banks of overhead LED lighting to inform a smartphone app. The lighting does the traditional job – illuminating a store – but each LED node has something called …
Digital Signage Biggest Growth Driver For Internet Of Things Business: Report May 20, 2015 by Super User The tech market intelligence firm International Data Corporation has issued an industry forecast that suggests digital signage is the biggest growth driver globally for the so-called Internet of Things. The IoT market is expected to grow by 19% this year, says the forecast, with the biggest bump among vertical industries coming for the one that gets stuff …
LG Shows Off Prototype OLED Panel That Goes Up Like Fridge Magnet May 19, 2015 by Super User This is getting a little crazy. A decade ago you needed two guys to manhandle a 55-inch LCD or (particularly) a plasma panel into place on a wall mount. Now we learn, via OLED-info, that LG has shown off in DS. Korea an OLED 55-incher that weighs all of about 5 pounds and is a …
Pattison Onestop Rolls Out New Big Screen To Mobile Service May 19, 2015 by Super User The Canadian digital OOH media company PATTISON Onestop has launched a new mobile-enabled advertising service called Engage, which mashes up NFC, SMS and QR codes as mechanisms to bridge big digital posters and the smartphones carried by most consumers. With Engage, says the company in a news release, marketers will be able to create more relevant and …
Startup Analyzes Faces In Digital OOH Crowds To Measure How Response To Ads May 18, 2015 by Super User A San Diego start-up called Emotient is the latest analytics company to try getting some traction for face pattern recognition technology in the digital out of home advertising industry. We’ve seen several companies come and go marketing products that use machine learning and cameras to look for, detect, count and roughly analyze faces that happen to look in the …
Live Data Screens At Heathrow Baggage Claim Answer Taxi Or Train Question May 16, 2015 by Super User When I am consulting with clients I speak a lot about moments and relevance – putting screens and content in place that really speak to that moment. Here’s a great example of a company putting that in practice: There are screens now at London Heathrow Terminal 2 that tell arriving passengers, as they are standing …
Lenovo Latest PC Maker To Join Chromebox Party May 15, 2015 by Super User Lenovo is the latest mainstream PC maker to crank out a Chromebox – something called a ThinkCentre Chromebox Tiny. The unit has a one-litre form factor, which after looking that up I can tell you means it is, umm, small-ish. “Lenovo was the first to introduce a one litre commercial desktop and ThinkCentre Chromebox is a testament …
Tablets: iPads Are No Longer Top Of The Sales Table May 14, 2015 by Super User It would be easy to think everybody seems to have an iPad, because an awful lot of people do. But new research shows even more people have cheap Chinese tablets with brand names on them that are wholly unfamiliar. The research firm Strategy Analytics says sales of white label tablets now out-strip sales for tablets …
Interesting Use-Case: Projection Mapping For Crowd Control May 14, 2015 by Super User Here’s an interesting use-case for projection mapping – crowd control. Canada’s Wonderland – a big theme park on Toronto’s outskirts – does a nightly projection mapping show on the park’s fake mountain structure near the entry/exit gates. It closes the park’s evening, and pulls people from all over the park to see the mountain transformed. …
Video: Google On Chromebox And The Power Of Intelligent Screens May 14, 2015 by Super User The Google For Work team – the business unit driving the company’s efforts in the digital signage market – did an online video presentation/hangout thingie a couple of weeks ago that went into several subjects, including a lengthy session specifically about digital signage and kiosks. I was out of town and missed it, but took some …
